Presumably sensing that inviting Kanye West guarantees headlines the following day, producers of the 2015 VMAs gave him an 11-minute slot for his Video Vanguard award acceptance speech -- an award presented to him by short-lived BFF Taylor Swift no less.

The lengthy speech culminated in West announcing that he was planning on running for President of the United States in 2020.

“'Did you smoke something before coming out here?’” West asked himself at one point. “The answer is yes, I rolled up a little something to knock the edge off.”